MHS-2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Sex Tourism, Intimate Exchanges, Sexual Identity
Document Summary
Padilla: the embodiment of tourism among bisexually-behaving dominican male sex workers. The growth of the tourism industry in the dominican republic has produced sexual practices and identities that reflect both the influence of large-scale structural processes and the resistant responses of local individuals. Transition to tourism has contributed to major demographic shifts since the 1970s, as individuals formerly working in traditional industries, such as agriculture, have increasingly moved to urban and coastal areas in search of work. The changes occurring in response to the growth of the tourism industry are producing new patterns of sexual vulnerability among specific populations. Traditional cultural definitions of latin american male homosexuality posit sexual role in anal sex rather than sexual object choice as the primary criterion for the ascription of sexual identity. Homosexuales are defined as men who take the pasivo (passive or receptive) position in anal sex sanky panky identity based on a linguistic dominicanization of the english phrase.